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154 them at ten. 'Let me alone, then' said the quack; 'let me levy on these nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety fools the tribute which they owe me, and I have no objection to the ten having in you that confidence which most assuredly you well deserve."

One homœopathist tells me, "You may no longer smile at the supposed inertness of homœopathic medicines, for I carry in my case a medicine of which, if a man should take one drop, he would never know what hurt him." Now if this medicine is an honest homœopathic attenuation of no matter what drug, the man who should swallow it would "never know what hurt him," because he would not be hurt at all. But if it is some powerful concentrated poison, which is capable of destroying life so suddenly, then this is a dangerous article and in dangerous hands. We have seen that white arsenic is a common homœopathic remedy; yet there are other poisons in constant use among this class of practitioners much more virulent and much more dangerous, such as strychnine, phosphorus, elaterin, atropine, and many others. Any of these,